Operation Christmas Child

The mom's group that Joy and I are part of is joining the school where Brad works to contribute shoe boxes to Operation Christmas Child. So Joy and I ventured out to make a shoebox for a baby girl. It was lots of fun to start some Christmas traditions with Joy. We should have bought a bigger box because we could barely fit all the stuff we bought.

Here is what we included: wipes, baby powder, tissues, sippy cup, fleece blanket and winter slippers.

"Rubby Ducky....

..and finger clippers your the ones you make play time oh so fun....."

 

A few of Joy's favorite toys....

This morning Joy played with some of her favorite toys while I did the dishes (basically anything "new" is her favorite at the moment). Joy loves the whisk, beaters, plastic containers, wooden spoons, the Nalgeen insert.....who needs baby toys? I have to get really quick at snapping pictures because as soon as she realizes that camera is out she moves FAST because she really wants to put the camera in her mouth.

Door stop and mirror

A couple very cute videos of Joy. Joy likes EVYERTHING that isn't a baby toy. Joy agrees with us that she is the cutest baby in the world and loves to look at herself :)

Around Tai Po

I don't have an iPhone (...yet) or a camera phone so taking pictures while I am out and about with Joy is a little hard. However, I thought my readers would enjoy seeing what some of our daily adventures are...Thank you to Google Images for some wonderful pictures.

This week so far Joy and I have enjoyed the cooler weather and ran some errands around Tai Po (the area where we live). 

A stop at the grocery store (Park n Shop, which I find funny since most people walk to the store, it should be called Walk N Shop) 

 

You can see our food comes from all over the world here in Hong Kong 

 

Bought a birthday present for our friend Isaiah and new pair of winter slippers (I'm thinking ahead, since we are still in shorts here) for Joy in the wet market (for some reason the pictures on Google were just of the gross meat section, which I ALWAYS avoid)

Took the 64K bus to the post office. As long as Joy can eat Cheerios or be entertained by the fellow bus riders she is happy to be on the bus. I let her chew on a spoon (while she was in the Ergo so I was watching her VERY carefully) and I got in big trouble. I told Grandpa that I am sure she would be fine, but he only spoke Cantonese and I only spoke English.....

Mailed Isaiah's birthday present, lets hope it gets there BEFORE his birthday which is over a month away.

 Took a walk  after the post office and discovered a cool old temple and a street market. Most of the items being sold were not items I usually buy but we did pick up some carrots and pumpkin. Frogs being sold as food...always catches me off guard

 

Took the MTR to Mom's group. This is the beautiful artwork at our MTR station (below picture actually from a friend's blog: http://nestinginskyscrapers.blogspot.hk/). We had a clothing exchange and Joy scored a few shirts for later and a pair of tights for this coming winter. I even scored a dress (which I can't nurse in, but hey I won't be doing that for ever).

 And today (which of course I forgot to take a picture of, even though I had my camera handy) we had a brunch play date at our house. Joy had fun playing with her friends and I of course love hanging out with other moms. Playing with friends must have tuckered her out because she has been sleeping for two hours!  However, no blog post is complete without little Joy so here is a picture :-)

Ng Tung chai

We took advantage of a free Saturday (Brad has had to work the last two..boo) and went on a family hike. The weather is only in the 80s now so hiking is only a bit sweaty, ok to be fair we still sweat a lot. The hike was really up hill (and it took us longer than anticipated ) but we did get to see some amazing waterfalls. We even changed a diaper at the base of the waterfall. Joy loves hikes but soon Brad may have to start carrying her on up hill hikes because I'm out of shape!

Yay for postcards

 

 I'm not sure what this says but the paper sure tastes good!

 Ok enough pictures mom!

Joy loves getting mail, ok her mom loves getting mail! Grandma Susan and Grandpa Paul have been sending Joy postcards from all their travels this fall. Grandma and Grandpa live in England and have traveled to Kenya and Spain, lucky ducks! Joy likes to look at the picture but then wants to eat them, so they are safe on the fridge until she can look at them without eating them.